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The Invisible War of Words and Wires
AI-fueled deception is redefining global espionage and the struggle for digital truth
Devona Green Jordan
October 16, 2025
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🧭Interesting Tech Fact:
Long before artificial intelligence and deepfakes, the seeds of digital disinformation were planted during the Cold War under a secret Soviet initiative known as “Operation INFEKTION.” In the early 1980s, the KGB orchestrated one of the first large-scale global disinformation campaigns using the technology of the time—fax machines, typewriters, and print media—to spread a fabricated story that the AIDS virus was engineered by the U.S. military. What made this operation extraordinary wasn’t the lie itself, but the deliberate engineering of credibility. Agents forged medical “reports,” inserted them into legitimate publications in India and Africa, and then cited those same publications as “proof” in Soviet media—a recursive loop of validation that mimicked what we now call algorithmic amplification.
This analog blueprint for deception became the spiritual ancestor of today’s AI-driven information warfare. Where the KGB once used human propagandists and photocopiers, modern adversaries now deploy large language models and synthetic media generators to achieve the same objective: to make the false appear factual through repetition, emotion, and design. The tools have evolved, but the strategy remains timeless—control perception, and you control power.
